The Takeaway

Why the name of the Aurora shooter should be spoken | Will we ever see another Sally Ride? | Pastor tests himself for HIV before his congregation to fight the stigma of AIDS | The Takeaway's musical road trip continues in San Francisco with Mates of State | A musician's Cinderella story told in 'Searching for Sugar Man.'

Neil Barofsky: Washington's ties to Wall Street caused TARP's failure | Are the sanctions against Penn State too harsh or not harsh enough? | Audio essay: Inverse proportions of an Olympic legacy | Oprah's recent India episode definitely not an "Aha!" moment | Remembering Sally Ride, high-flying astronaut and pioneer for science education.

What has Colorado learned since Columbine? | John Hockenberry audio essay: A pin on the map of American reality | Defining domestic terrorism in the wake of the Colorado shooting | A CIA assassination unit allegedly run by a former mobster bodyguard | NCAA announces penalties against Penn State University due to their handling of the child sexual abuse scandal | The state of AIDS in America.

An update on the tragic mass shooting in Denver and an eyewitness account of the events | Michele Bachmann’s unusual attack on Clinton’s Chief of Staff Huma Abedin | Competing in the Olympics with no food or water? Ramadan conflicts with Olympic schedule | An Olympic cost: the huge bill that London pays for the games | Motherhood: New Yahoo CEO Melissa Mayer is pregnant | A new collection anthologizes 250 contemporary poems by members of the Taliban.

A tax standoff and fiscal cliff in Congress | Representative Chris Van Hollen on the tax-cut showdown | The FDA bans BPA from baby bottles and children's cups | Tackling the bioethical questions raised by the 'Cyclops Baby' story | The Boy Scouts uphold their policy to deny membership to homosexuals | New documentary "Vito" looks at the life of the author of "The Celluloid Closet."

How Americans support presidential candidates from abroad | Self-made billionaire Sheldon Adelson investigated by Justice Department | Educational programs provide financial counseling for students | The case of the 'Cyclops Child' raises alarming questions about neonatal care.

Chen Guangcheng discusses disability, human rights and China in his first national broadcast interview | Current polling data shows President Obama with a significant lead in battleground swing states | Tampa's Democratic mayor prepares to host the Republican National Convention | The Obama Administration is making a push for financial literacy, starting with children as young as three years old | How this historic drought will affect farmers, food prices, and you.

Former Bain Capital partner Edward Conard suggests Mitt Romney legally departed Bain in 2002 | Political attacks on Mitt Romney's ties to Bain Capital unlikely to fade from the headlines | A historic CIA kidnapping case is back in the limelight | Unfinished business in Guantanamo Bay | DirecTV and Viacom fight suggests a trend towards 'à la carte' cable programming | Making friends as an adult: How do we make time for new friendships when we barely even have time for ourselves?  

JPMorgan and Wells Fargo report their earnings | Walls Fargo to pay $175 million to settle allegations that outside brokers discriminated against black and Hispanic borrowers during the housing boom | Saudi Arabia allows the competition of two women at the Olympic Games | Is this the last year for the Dream Team? | Follow Friday: Romney and Biden Address NAACP, Obamacare repeal vote, and tensions over the Texas Voting Rights Act | Exploring "Why does the world exist?"      

Amnesty International's Donatella Rovera reports on her time inside Syria | Michael Semple on his interview with a senior Taliban commander | Baltimore's economic woes discovered to be linked in part to the Libor scandal, could have implications for other cities | Swing States 2012: Anna Sale reports on hispanic and suburban voters in Colorado | Diverse neighborhood, uniform friends: Tanner Colby on why we're still so segregated.  

How to save your job from an impending robot workforce | Hundreds of public workers' salaries reduced to minimum wage in Scranton, Pennsylvania | Reporter blows the whistle on inaction in the face of a Tuberculosis outbreak in Florida | Genetically modified mosquitoes might eliminate "the deadliest threat to the human race" | John Leguizamo: a "Ghetto Klown" reflects.  

Egyptian high court and military square off with newly-elected President Mohamed Morsi | How effective is deportation as an immigration policy? | 101-year-old Florence Detlor is not unusual in her embrace of computer technology and social media | A new Frontline documentary seeks an "endgame" for AIDS in the African American population | How to bounce back: Author Andrew Zolli studies patterns of resilience.    

President Obama is calling today for a one-year extension of the Bush-era tax cuts for people who make less than $250,000 | One Republican has taken his name off an oath to never vote for legislation that will raise taxes | America's "two-tiered" justice system with Glenn Greenwald | Olympic athletes to keep an eye on | The sounds of Brooklyn with Reggie Watts.  

New jobs numbers released | Defining this presidential election cycle's "swing states" | Headscarf ban lifted in an unanimous decision by FIFA | Seventeen Magazine promises to "never alter the shape of a girl's face or body" | From the 60s to the Supreme Court with Kurt Andersen | Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey explores the intersection of memory and history.

Roger Bootle wins the 2012 Wolfson Economic Prize for his plan for how to cope with the demise of the Euro | Making sense of the Libor scandal | Kids on vacation: What's best for the family? | Nicholas Kristof takes the pulse of the people of Iran | The BBC's Dan Damon on the headlines in the U.K.'s capital city | Track and field Paralympian Oscar Pistorius to represent South Africa in Olympic Games | A sound designer turns city noises into electronic soundscapes.